- Title
- North Carolina historical review [1961 : October]
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- Date
- October 1961
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina historical review [1961 : October]
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GOVERNOR DANIEL L. RUSSELL EXPLAINS HIS
“SOUTH DAKOTA BOND” SCHEME
By Robert F. Durden*
South Dakota’s successful suit in the United States Su¬
preme Court against the State of North Carolina has earned
an interesting niche in constitutional histories. The reason
is that prior to the 1904 decision in the case ( South Dakota
v. North Carolina , 192 U. S. 286 [1904] ) no State had ever
succeeded in suing another on such a matter as state-issued
bonds. The Supreme Court since its inception had regularly
adjudicated boundary and other such controversies between
States. But prior to North Carolina’s experience, no sovereign
State had ever been hauled into the Court for its failure to
pay a debt allegedly owed to a sovereign sister-State. Not
only did that happen, but North Carolina eventually paid.
The individual responsible, more than any other, for the
massive bond headache which Governor Robert B. Glenn in¬
herited from his Democratic predecessor, Charles B. Aycock,
was none other than Aycock’s Republican predecessor, Daniel
Lindsay Russell. Russell, as one of three*1 of the State’s Re¬
publican governors since William W. Holden’s impeach¬
ment and removal from office in 1871, felt no pain at all in
adding to the problems of the Democrats, who had so utterly
devasted the Populists and the Republicans, or the “Fusion-
ists” as the Democrats named them, in the “White Suprem¬
acy” crusades of 1898 and 1900.
Once proud and precocious as a young Whig who had
become a Republican shortly after the Civil War, Russell
also developed his bond “scheme,” as he called it, in the
* Dr. Robert F. Durden is an Associate Professor of History at Duke
University, Durham. He is indebted to the Duke University Research Coun¬
cil for facilitating both the research and the writing of this article, as well
as of the monograph on this subject which is in preparation.
1 The other two Republican governors were Tod R. Caldwell (1871-1874),
who succeeded Holden and died in office July 11, 1874; and Curtis Hooks
Brogden (1874-1877), who was lieutenant governor at the time of Cald¬
well’s death and who completed the deceased’s term of office. There has
been no Republican governor of the State of North Carolina since Russell
(1897-1901).
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